PMI

Now Health International has launched a mobile app for IOS, android will follow, with functions including finding a medical provider and submitting reimbursement claims.

The UK private medical insurance (PMI) market risks becoming an ‘irrelevance - a Yellow Pages in the age of Google' if the sector could not improve affordability, quality and service, Bupa UK's Alex Perry has warned.

Now Health International has announced the opening of their new operation in Indonesia.

The NHS Health Check programme is spending up to £450,000 per death avoided, which could be better spent, a report from the London School of Economics and University of Liverpool has said.

AIG has launched a new International Private Medical Insurance (IPMI) product, called Expatriate Care, for companies with five employees or more, with previous medical history disregarded.

BMI Healthcare is to offer e-prescribing for its oncology patients, with rollout over the next 12 months, paving the way for it to be rolled to other specialities.

Now Health International and Tenet Sompo will offer a no claims bonus to their members in Singapore.

Vitality has seen a 16% rise in profits to £42.8m for its life and health insurance businesses, while combined new business sales declined 2% to £105m in the 12 months to June 2015.

As the number of people with group income protection rises, Thomas Smith looks at how the industry is faring.

The NHS has met the majority of its cancer waiting targets, however it has missed two, figures for July 2015 have revealed.